Activities this weekend have included, working, cooking (friends over last night), looking at and test driving cars, and then more work so no proper birding again. On Saturday I was driving on the A27 near Portsmouth and managed to see a flock of Brent Geese and a group of eight Black-necked Grebes. Later in the day I drove past Froxfield where there were eight Little Egrets and a Heron, Savernake where there was a herd of fifteen Fallow Deer and Ogbourne with eight Mute Swans and a few gulls on the fields by the river. On my way home from work I checked out a couple of the flooded areas around Chiseldon and had two flocks of gulls, one of one hundred and thirty-eight and the other one hundred and forty-five. Both had Black-headed, Common, Herring and Lesser Black-backed with a few of the Black-headed in full summer plumage. A check on the Little Owls found them both out enjoying the sunshine. Sunday evening heading back to Swindon along the Fosse Way gave me a sighting of a Tawny Owl as it flew across the road just outside Moreton-in-the Marsh. It will be working tomorrow and then on Tuesday, instead of the intended morning walk in Savernake there will be a drive to Trowbridge to look at a car. Hopefully there will be a chance to do some birding in the area while I am there.
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